Improvement in methods of setting posts



l QU? MFEYERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHEm WASHINGTON. D C.

To all lwhom t may cauce/rit.'

\ the mode of setting these will be described.

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Ueranl is". `s-TRLVBLINe, on; MADIsoN,` INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 107,637, dated Septembm20. 1870.

"IMPROVEMENT IN METHODS OF SETTING POSTS.

-`'.'l'he Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making 'cart of the same Bei it knownf that I, URIAH B. STRIBLING, of Madison, in the county of Jeifersonand` State of Indiana,

have invented anlmproved Modcof Setting Posts; and I do 'hereby declare the followingto be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of this speeication. i fj i i i Thisinvention `relates to a cheap, simple and durable methodof setting posts of any kind or material,

but is peculiarly adapted to those of cast-iron`, and

In Figures 1 and 2; A, represents a cast-iron post for an iron fence, lprovided with a cross-p1ece,l, which is cast in one piece with the post, and furnished with bolt-holes, as shown.

. 'An anchor, C, `preferablyfof cast-iron, but of any shape `or size, provided with holes, in `which suitable bolts, a a, are inserted, is placedat the bottom of the post-hole, deep enough-to be below frost.

The hole isA now filled with iron borings, turnings, drillings, iilings,` and other particles of iron, which are rammed down around the bolts `a a, `and occupy the space D. l

When thehole hasbeen and leveled, the post A is'se't in place, so that the-'holes in` B coincide with theiholts a a andthents arethen screwed down tifht.` i i The moisturefromlthe surrounding earth, and the penetrationof water `from rains, causes the iron par ticles to oxidize, and son form/a| hard` impenetrable mass, almost equal to east-iron.`

,Figure 3 shows the best methodfof brming the i bases of single metallic posts, such as those for gas- 'lamps In this case three or morebolts, equally distlibuted, should be used, and an anchor-piece corrresponding thereto.. Y.

Figure 4 shows hw a wooden fence-post may be set by my mode.

The cross-piece B is of wod, gained and spiked to the lower end of the post.

The anchor-piece O may also be of Wood.

In setting iron fences, it has been almost nniversally-the custom to build upa stone foundation, and to r set the post in a mortise made in the stone base, ll-

when the same is used inv connection with an anchorpiece, C, and stay-rods or bolts ma, to secure the .post -doWn-to the bed, in the manner and for the purposes substantially asshown.

U. IB. STRIBLING.

.W itnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, J r., A. H. GONNETT. 

